A few days ago I woke up and I thought David was cooking breakfast, but it smelled really bad.\u00a0 I got up and closed the bedroom door and went back to sleep.\u00a0 Later, when I woke up again, I went downstairs and asked him what he had cooked.\u00a0 He said he hadn’t cooked anything. “What is that I smelled?”\u00a0 I asked him.<\/p>\n
All day long I kept smelling something bad.\u00a0 Sometimes it smelled like something was hot and was burning.\u00a0 I have a very strong sense of smell so anything different in our house, I notice it right away.\u00a0 This smell really was bothering me. I was worried that maybe the furnace was getting too hot, but David said it wasn’t that. David has no sense of smell to speak of so he did not notice what I was smelling.<\/p>\n
Later I was outside and came up on our back porch and there it was.\u00a0 The smell, but this time it smelled like skunk.\u00a0 I was worried the dogs had run a skunk under the deck.\u00a0 But, no, there was no skunk there, but David did some searching around the house and found what looked like burrowing under our front porch and it smelled like skunk. That’s all we needed. A family of skunks under the house!\u00a0 He said it looked like something was living under there.<\/p>\n
Since we built the new front porch we have had two kitten litters from a feral cat and a woodchuck take up residence under there.\u00a0 This was by far the worst occupant we have had under there.\u00a0 The first kitten litter David caught the kittens and mother cat, who scratched him up pretty badly.\u00a0 We managed to find homes for all of them except the mother cat who got away.\u00a0 The second litter, the mother cat got hit by a car and we think the kittens died under there, we are not sure.\u00a0 The woodchuck also got hit by a car so that problem went away. But now, we have skunks!<\/p>\n
David did some searching online for pest control people and he had a man answer who said he would come out and try to catch the skunk or skunks.\u00a0 He came out and brought his trap and set it up.\u00a0 He was a retired minister and a jack of all trades now. I wonder if he had ever caught a skunk before.\u00a0 \u00a0The first night he caught nothing so he moved the trap to another location and still no skunk trapped.\u00a0 \u00a0This time something ate the marshmallows he had put in the trap. Marshmallows!\u00a0 Who would have thought of that to catch a skunk?<\/p>\n
Remember the cartoon Pepe Lapew?\u00a0 \u00a0He was an amorous skunk who was constantly going after this cat.\u00a0 He had a French accent and was very debonaire.\u00a0 I thought he was sooo funny.\u00a0 You could always tell his odor put off the cat.\u00a0 Well, the skunk under our porch is putting me off.<\/p>\n
The worst smell is in our basement. David says there’s a tunnel under there something has dug.<\/p>\n
So far no luck catching the skunk.\u00a0 I’m hoping we get it gone before porch sitting weather!\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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